Elias Sues, Agent Blues
Patrik Elias is suing his former agent to the tune of $2 million. This got very little local coverage, aside from this clip in the New York Post. Normally, agent-player disputes aren’t newsworthy, but in this case my eyebrows went up. Point 1: Elias was underpaid for his first few seasons with the big club. [...]
Championship Material?
With thirteen youth hockey tournaments under my belt in the past five years, I finally get the chance to play in one of my own. Tomorrow night my team leaves warm and humid NJ for the hockey mecca of Toronto, where we’ll be playing in the Hockey North America 2007 Finals. Hockey North America, is, [...]
Diesel Sweeties and Project Wonderful
I’ll admit it up front: I love comics but not comic books, probably the result of having bed sheets that contained three-four panels of several popular cartoons in the 70s (I only remember Peanuts and Gasoline Alley). Been a huge fan of Dilbert since the beginning, and I can even lay claim to a first-edition [...]
Turnovers on Parade
Amazing how the Ducks were basically out-hustled for most of Game 5, only to benefit from two fortuitous turns. Detroit missed an empty net with about a minute left, ringing a post and sending play the other way, where the Ducks knotted the score at the end of the rush. After raising his arms in [...]
Go Ducks Go
With the Devils enjoying an early summer, the Rangers thankfully out of the running, and the work-related Sharks also exiting in the second round, I am running out of teams to cheer for or against. Fortunately, we can claim weak affiliation with the Ducks thanks to former NJ Devil Scott Niedermeyer and former NJ Devils [...]
Canadian But Not Hockey Related
Today was a big day — I ended up on Cory Doctorow’s blog, had my interview with that very same Canadian writer posted publicly on the ACM website and finally can claim to be associated with someone from Canada who is not hockey-related.
The Road, The Street and The Darkness
Having seen a variety of forward references to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road I decided to broaden my reading horizon between the here-and-now of Jodi Picoult and the when-is-that of Neal Stephenson. I wouldn’t call it science fiction, in the sense that everything in the book is completely plausible and accessible today; it’s a book without [...]
It’s Over in the Swamp
Yes, I’m profoundly sad that the Devils season has ended. As many of the Devils said in the press, they had a team that could have gone far in the postseason, and now three seasons in a row have ended with the Devils going no better than 5-5. Could have is the operative phrase, but [...]
ACM Queue interview with Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow and I got to sit down back in February for a long chat about privacy, security, device telemetry, emulation, stimulation and who inflicts (or tries to) policy, control and editorial stance on what you see online. It was a fun romp through the strange intersection of science, science fiction and digital rights. The [...]
Puttin’ on the Foil
It’s time for Devils fans to put on the foil. If you’re a Slapshot fan you get the reference, otherwise put some foil on your knuckles, pull your favorite comfy chair in front of the big screen, and start hollering for the good guys in red and black to score some goals. Hard to believe [...]